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Obama to Sign Executive Order Protecting Transgender Feds
Announcement is latest in a series of White House moves to ensure rights for LGBT workers.
President Obama will soon certify federal agencies cannot discriminate against transgender employees.
On Monday he announced his intentions to sign an executive order to back up existing regulations. The guidance, which Obama has ordered staff to draft, will ban workplace discrimination against federal employees based on their gender identity.
A 2009 Obama order prohibited the firing of federal workers for any reason other than job performance, and a 2013 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruling determined the 1964 Civil Rights Act gender protection provisions extended to gender identity.
Still, Obama said the move will help bring the federal government in line with the private sector.
"The majority of Fortune 500 companies already have nondiscrimination policies to protect their employees because it's the right thing to do and because many say it helps to retain and attract the best talent," Obama said Monday during a White House event honoring lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender pride month. "And I agree. So if Congress won't act, I will."
Advocates applauded the announcement, calling Obama the "most pro-LGBT president in history."
"Each and every American worker should be judged based on the work they do, and never because of a fundamental aspect of who they are -- like their gender identity," said Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin. "And the federal government, like employers across America, is best served by ensuring every qualified individual is able to serve without fear of discrimination. We thank President Obama for announcing this crucial and historic measure, and we look forward to seeing it signed soon."
Earlier in June, Obama announced he would also sign an executive order barring workplace discrimination against LGBT federal contractors. Gay employees in the federal workforce are already protected by an executive order from President Clinton, but a recent report from the Merit Systems Protection Board found additional safeguards could be guaranteed through legislation.
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AIDS Services for the Monadnock Region v. Gilsum
Status: Settled
Update June, 2012: GLAD has reached a successful settlement on behalf of AIDS Services for the Monadnock Region (ASMR) that will enable ASMR to continue their group home, known as the Cleve Jones Wellness House, without fear of it being taken by tax deed by the Town.
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Case Background
For the second time GLAD has filed a lawsuit against a New Hampshire town that is trying to shut down a group home for people living with HIV and Hepatitis C Virus.
GLAD filed the suit on behalf of AIDS Services for the Monadnock Region (ASMR) on July 5, 2011 in Cheshire Superior Court in Keene, New Hampshire. The lawsuit seeks to prevent the Town of Gilsum from taking the Cleve Jones Wellness House, operated by ASMR in Gilsum, New Hampshire, by tax deed on July 21. The Town's action would render all of the residents of Cleve Jones Wellness House homeless.
The suit arises from the Town's discriminatory treatment of ASMR with respect to the granting of property tax exemptions to nonprofit charitable organizations. ASMR was a few days late filing the required application for the exemption and the Town denied it on that basis. Documents requested from the Town, however, demonstrate that other nonprofits in Gilsum, such as the Congregational Church and the American Legion, never filed the required application, or filed it late, but were always granted a property tax exemption. Since ASMR, a small nonprofit, could not afford the hefty property taxes, the Town's motive for the disparate treatment was clear: They don't want people with HIV and Hepatitis C in the neighborhood.
After the Court scheduled a July 13 hearing on GLAD's motion for a preliminary injunction, the Town agreed not to take the Cleve Jones Wellness House while the full lawsuit proceeds. The suit claims that the Town's actions violated ASMR's rights under the equal protection provisions of the state and federal constitutions, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the National Fair Housing Act. In 2008 GLAD successfully sued the Town after it placed illegal zoning restrictions on Wellness House.
ASMR is also represented by Stephen Bragdon of Bragdon, Dowd & Kossayda, P.C. in Keene and Elliott Berry of New Hampshire Legal Assistance.
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John Farrell, Forbes science blogger extraordinaire (and friend of this blog), comments on my recent talk at Thomas Aquinas College, over at his own personal blog. As you know if you've read or listened to the talk, I call for a return to Scholasticism within Catholic intellectual life as essential to sound theology and apologetics. John has some kind words about my talk, for which I thank him, but he also expresses skepticism about the prospects of the metaphysics of the School and its Schoolmen (to use the jargon of the good old days). Writes John:
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You are at RISK!
The risk is not a disease. It is not a germ. It is not a crime.
No, you are at risk of loosing your right to eat!
You are at risk of loosing your very health and wellbeing. You are at risk of loosing your constitutional right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. You are at risk of loosing your most basic freedoms.
The FDA arm of the government has decided to take away your right to eat fresh nutrient dense whole food from the farm.
Please read this article with all seriousness. Your very right to life depends on it.
This article below was written by Dr. Mercola, and is reprinted with permission.
On May 16th, Representative Ron Paul asked,
"If we are not even free anymore to decide something as basic as what we wish to eat or drink, how much freedom do we really have left?"
Paul was talking about the FDA ban on the interstate sale of raw milk for human consumption — milk that has not been pasteurized. The ban began in 1987, but the FDA didn't really begin enforcing it seriously until 2006 — when the government began sting operations and armed raids of dairy farmers and their willing customers.
The New American reports:
"Even if the FDA were correct in its assertions about the dangers of raw milk, its prohibition on interstate raw milk sales would still be, as Paul termed it, 'an unconstitutional misapplication of the commerce clause for legislative ends' …
Saying he is 'outraged' by the FDA's raids on peaceful dairy farmers and their customers, Paul has introduced legislation … 'to allow the shipment and distribution of unpasteurized milk and milk products for human consumption across state lines,' in effect reversing the FDA's unconstitutional ban on such sales."
The "Food Safety Modernization Act" that was enacted earlier this year gives the FDA almost unlimited authority to decide if food is harmful, even without credible evidence. But farmers who have been persecuted by the FDA for selling raw milk, like Amish Farmer Dan Allgyer, are not backing down. Allgyer's case is going to court.
Citizens are irate that the FDA allows damaging junk food, but prevents people from making an educated, informed food choice in purchasing raw grass-fed milk.
According to the Washington Times, Attorney Jonathan Emord, who has defeated the FDA in court eight times, is focusing on the deeper issues that this case stems from. Emord says:
"We would not be here today were it not for the fact that over the past seventy-five years, the Congress of the United States has delegated away to some 230 independent regulatory commissions the power to make law, the power to execute the law, and the power to judge law violation. That delegation of governing power from Congress to the unelected heads of the regulatory agencies violates the Constitution, which vests exclusively in Congress the obligation to make law".
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The war on raw milk, which is really an unconstitutional assault on one of your most basic rights, i.e. your right to choose what you want to eat and drink, is now in full swing and will likely intensify in the days ahead.
Amish Farmer Raided at Gun Point
Dan Allgyer, an Amish farmer, was recently caught in an FDA sting operation, after the agency planted a spy in local buying club he supplies, "Grassfed On The Hill", back in October of 2009 to gather evidence against him. His farm was raided at gun point, and eventually the Department of Justice, at the behest of FDA, filed suit in Federal District Court to obtain an injunction prohibiting Allgyer from transporting and selling raw milk across state lines.
This isn't the first time the FDA has spent US tax dollars to violently clamp down on "illegal interstate commerce," by raw milk farmers, all under the guise of doing their job and protecting the public's health…
Any level-headed person would argue that this is a poorly shrouded sham, seeing how the FDA has continuously allowed known toxins into the food supply, and those who willingly choose to harm their health are free to do so by consuming too much sugar, artificial non-food-based items, alcohol, and toxic cigarettes.
Logic notwithstanding, food safety chief and former Monsanto lawyer Michael Taylor recently defended the FDA's spying and gun-toting tactics against raw milk producers, stating that they're simply doing their job, calling the campaign "a public health duty" based on "statutory directive." And it may actually get worse than it already is, if we don't stop it. A recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle explains:
"The FDA is in the midst of writing the critical regulations that will implement the Food Safety Modernization Act Congress passed last year with applause all around from the Obama administration, Democrats and Republicans despite ferocious opposition from small-farm advocates. The sweeping new law gives the agency extraordinary powers to detain foods on farms. It also denies farmers recourse to federal courts.
On July 3, the agency will issue its new rule to detain any food it believes is unsafe, or, more critically, "mislabeled." In Allgyer's case, the entire FDA case rests on a technical violation of a ban on interstate commerce in raw milk and alleged mislabeling.
Before the new law, the FDA could only impound food when it had credible evidence the food was contaminated or posed a public health hazard. The detention powers are part of what Taylor described as a new agency focus on preventing food poisoning outbreaks rather than responding to them after the fact. Taylor described the new law as giving the agency "farm to table" control over food safety."
Taylor also stated that he will seek a "high rate of compliance" with the new rules. Compliance will be made all the more "effective" once the FDA gets its new and improved tool kit of enforcement, which will include:
- Access to farm records
- Mandatory recall authority
- New administrative enforcement actions
- Ability to revoke a farm's mandatory registration (which will be a new requirement under the law)
Support Bill to Legalize Your Right to Choose!
Allgyer taking on the FDA in court is a classic case of David vs. Goliath. At stake is the issue of consumer choice and food freedom — something most people would agree is an absolute, basic, and unalienable right.
The case has even brought the ire and attention of Congressman Ron Paul (TX), who in response introduced House Bill HR 1830: To authorize the interstate traffic of unpasteurized milk and milk products that are packaged for direct human consumption.
The incident is just one in a long string of raids on small farms, indicating that the FDA is quite serious about its attempt to eliminate food freedom for all Americans. And as feared, the "Food Safety Modernization Act," which was enacted earlier this year, gives the FDA the jurisdiction and near unlimited authority to single-handedly decide if a food is harmful, without having to produce credible evidence to support their case.
Ron Paul's bill would undo at least some of the damage, as it would make it legal for farmers to sell and distribute raw milk across state lines to those who wish to obtain it.
I cannot urge you strongly enough to support Ron Paul's bill, HR 1830, and inform everyone you know. This issue has nothing to do with whether or not you want to drink raw milk, and everything to do with whether or not you want the right to chose what you feed your family. If we allow the US government to remove our right to raw milk, who knows what's next?!
They could decide you don't have the right to obtain or eat fresh vegetables, or no right to buy or drink water.
Sound ludicrous? So is the idea that you do not have the right to drink raw milk, a natural food that has been consumed for thousands of years and has proven health benefits. Considering the fact that we've seen more and more outbreaks of the rare virulent forms of E.coli and other pathogens being traced back to fresh produce, I see no reason why the FDA might not decide to make fresh vegetables illegal. Ditto for water, as water shortages may eventually become a reality, prompting the need to dramatically curb water consumption, and what better means than by force of law backed up with firepower?
The Farm-to-Consumer Defense Fund has created a petition page for HR 1830 that also automatically faxes your message to your US Senators and House Representative. You can even choose to send your message to your nearest daily newspaper.
I urge you to take a moment to sign the petition right now!
How Did We Get to This Point?
During a recent peaceful demonstration in D.C. in support of Allgyer, attorney Jonathan Emord explained how we got to the point where we must now FIGHT for our right to ingest a healthful food.
"We would not be here today were it not for the fact that over the past 75 years, the Congress of the United States has delegated away to some 230 independent regulatory commissions the power to make law, the power to execute the law, and the power to judge law violation. That delegation of governing power from Congress to the unelected heads of the regulatory agencies violates the Constitution, which vests exclusively in Congress the obligation to make law.
Nine-tenths of all laws are no longer the product of our elected representatives; they are created by the unelected heads of the bureaucratic agencies. Those agency heads are unaccountable to the courts, the Congress, and the American people. One such agency that engages in this unconstitutional governance is the Food and Drug Administration. It is the action of that agency that we examine today, because it offends the very foundation of liberty of our Republic."
In short, we as Americans have failed to keep our eyes on the ball. We grew complacent; lulled into non-action and non-participation by the illusion that "Government is taking care of our needs."
Meanwhile, our rights to life, liberty and freedom have eroded away, and this is the end result: An agency of the government, paid for by your tax dollars and the drug industry, claims you have no inherent human right to eat any particular food. Yes. That's not a misinterpretation. They now declared that this is exactly their position, and it's written in black and white…
FDA Claims to have God-Like Authority Over Your Life
Attorneys for the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF, a not for profit organization founded to protect the right of farmers and consumers to engage in direct commerce) helped to draft the text of HR 1830. FTCLDF has also filed a lawsuit against the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on behalf of eight plaintiffs, challenging the legality of the FDA ban on interstate distribution of raw milk for human consumption.
FTCLDF president, Pete Kennedy, stressed that the FDA is making it clear that even individual consumers crossing state lines to purchase raw milk and bringing it back to their home state are violating the law. The ban is not just limited to farmers selling the milk.
On April 26, 2010, the FDA submitted its initial response to this lawsuit, in which the FTCLDF asserts the unconstitutionality of the ban on raw milk in interstate commerce. In its answer, the FDA clearly states its position on the "freedom of food choice" in general, and your right to obtain and consume raw milk in particular. Their answer reads in part:
- "Plaintiffs' assertion of a new 'fundamental right' to produce, obtain, and consume unpasteurized milk lacks any support in law." [p. 4]
- "It is within HHS's authority . . . to institute an intrastate ban [on unpasteurized milk] as well." [p. 6]
- "Plaintiffs' assertion of a new 'fundamental right' under substantive due process to produce, obtain, and consume unpasteurized milk lacks any support in law." [p.17]
- "There is no absolute right to consume or feed children any particular food." [p. 25]
- "There is no 'deeply rooted' historical tradition of unfettered access to foods of all kinds." [p. 26]
- "Plaintiffs' assertion of a 'fundamental right to their own bodily and physical health, which includes what foods they do and do not choose to consume for themselves and their families' is similarly unavailing because plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to obtain any food they wish." [p. 26]… "Even if such a right did exist, it would not render FDA's regulations unconstitutional because prohibiting the interstate sale and distribution of unpasteurized milk promotes bodily and physical health." [p. 27]
- "There is no fundamental right to freedom of contract." [p. 27]
Essentially, while the fight currently revolves around your right to obtain and consume raw milk, the FDA claims to have the power to restrict your access to any kind of food it deems harmful, because you have no fundamental right to obtain and eat any particular food whatsoever!
The statements made by the FDA truly challenge the rational mind and rattle the core of any freedom-loving soul.
Aside from the fact that most people assume they have the right to ingest any food they see fit, United States law has also given us the freedom to enter into private contracts as we choose. In the case of raw milk, increasing numbers of people have elected to obtain their milk through contractual arrangements such as buyers club agreements and herdshare contracts. Here, the FDA claims that there is no fundamental right to freedom of contract in the United States!
As the FTCLDF states on its website:
"As for the agency's contention that there is no fundamental right to obtain any food, including raw milk, here is what the 'substantive due process' clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides: no person shall "be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."
Obtaining the foods of your choice is so basic to life, liberty and property that it is inconceivable that the 'right of food choice' would not be protected under the Constitution…"
Kentucky Raw Milk Consumers Get a Rude Awakening
A recent blog post by Kimberly Hartke highlights the sense of shock felt when people suddenly realize that the government's over-reach now affects them personally. A food club based in Louisville, Kentucky recently got a visit from the county health inspector, who promptly issued a cease and desist order when he saw that raw milk was being sold. He also placed all the milk on the premises under quarantine.
The members of the club have leased cows from a Kentucky dairy farm and have ownership rights in the milk produced. To say they were shocked when they were told they could not pick up their personal property would be an understatement, but once the fear subsided, they turned angry, and then resolve set in.
Hartke quotes one of the club members, Dr. Joslin:
"We had heard about government actions against other farmers, but it didn't hit home until last Friday. My wife turned to me and said, 'we could lose our milk, and I am ready to fight this'."
She goes on to write:
"When asked how he felt about the health inspector's visit, he said, "I felt violated. This is my freedom, my choice. You don't have any right to tell me that I can't feed my family something that has been consumed all over the world for thousands of years. Pasteurization is something new, in fact, fresh milk may be more commonly consumed worldwide, than processed milk."
More than 90 percent of the club members responded to the threat by ignoring the quarantine and picking up their milk. But they also signed a document of their own. Affirming their legal right to enter into private contracts, their document included the following passages from the Kentucky Constitution:
Section 1: Rights of life, liberty, worship, pursuit of safety and happiness, free speech, acquiring and protecting property, peaceable assembly, redress of grievances, bearing arms. Section 10: The people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers and possessions, from unreasonable search and seizure; and no warrant shall issue to search any place, or seize any person or thing, without describing them as nearly as may be, nor without probable cause supported by oath or affirmation.
Section 19: No ex post facto law, nor any law impairing the obligation of contracts, shall be enacted. Section 26: To guard against transgression of the high powers which we have delegated, We Declare that everything in this Bill of Rights is excepted out of the general powers of government, and shall forever remain inviolate; and all laws contrary thereto, or contrary to this Constitution, shall be void.
"Dr. Joslin and his wife are typical of the consumers that choose local, fresh milk to feed their families. They are well educated, they did a tremendous amount of research before making the transition, and they had a compelling health reason (their children) to do so. They also are typical in the sense that they believe in the American ideals of personal liberty and right to private property, limited government.
"I do not hate our government or system of government," stresses Joslin, "Rather, I am a patriot, a flag waver, and I thank our veterans. But, my priority is to protect my family's liberty. I will not lie down."
Motives, Misconceptions, and Ignorance
"The ban on raw milk crossing state lines is an economic regulation disguised as a health regulation," Pete Kennedy points out. For those who cannot understand what this has to do with economics, you must understand that Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO's) simply cannot compete with grassfed raw milk farms, and therefore stand to lose a lot of money as raw milk becomes increasingly popular.
They cannot compete because in order for milk to be safely consumed raw, it should come from cows fed a forage based diet that includes pasture. CAFO-derived milk should not be consumed raw given the elevated risk of hazardous pathogens in the milk—an inevitable side effect of the environment in which these cows are raised.
The reason why they're trying to shut down raw milk farmers is because so many people consume raw milk and raw milk dairy products, and the numbers are growing every year. One 2008 survey conducted by the CDC found there were over nine million raw milk drinkers in the US, and today, the number of raw milk consumers is estimated to be in the neighborhood of 12-13 million. When you consider that each family can consume a few gallons of milk per week, it all starts adding up, and Big Dairy is losing business.
Additionally, Kennedy stated that raw milk can be a "gateway to small farm prosperity". Families who initially set foot on the farm to obtain raw milk typically end up purchasing other farm products such as produce, eggs, poultry and meat.
The CDC's study also highlights the error of the claim that raw milk poses a significant health risk. With that many millions of raw milk consumers, it's quite clear that grassfed raw milk is extremely safe, because there are so few foodborne illness outbreaks attributable to it.
Lastly, but perhaps most importantly, while the FDA has the authority to declare foods safe or unsafe, they do not have experts in their employ with the intellectual aptitude to find the relevant research and data to help them understand the food. It's quite clear that the FDA still has no understanding whatsoever of the differences between the production of raw milk intended for pasteurization by a CAFO or other conventional dairy and the production of raw milk intended for direct human consumption by a small farm.
Conventional CAFO milk must be pasteurized in order to conform to the distribution process and elimination of the elevated risk of pathogens that are present because of the conditions in which the cows are kept. But milk from a healthy cow that is fed a balanced diet that includes pasture and has access to clean and comfortable shelter has a lower risk of a pathogen presence and has a different quality profile than that of CAFO milk.
FDA enforcement actions have not been limited to raw milk farmers. Recently the agency cost award-winning cheese makers Kelly and Anthony Estrella their business.
Without a shred of evidence that her hand-crafted cheeses had made anyone sick, the FDA was able to shut down the Estrella Family Creamery based on environmental and cheese sample test results that were positive for the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes (L. mono.). There are many subtypes of L. mono., most have not been found to cause illness in humans. Instead of determining whether the L. mono. found at the creamery was a virulent subtype—something the FDA had the capability to do—the FDA shut down the dairy through a seizure order without any further testing.
And so, the agency put out of business cheesemakers that had won numerous awards both in the US and internationally based on nothing more than a misconceived suspicion that her methods of cheese production and storage might be "unsanitary." Never mind the fact that high-quality raw cheeses MUST undergo certain fermentation processes and storage conditions in order to encourage the growth of beneficial bacteria and so on…
Cheese making is an art form that has been perfected over numerous generations, the products from which have been consumed and valued for their superior taste and nutrition for ages. The FDA has considered raising the aging requirement for raw cheese from sixty days to ninety days further limiting the amount and variety of raw cheeses in this country. Europe has no aging requirement.
But according to the FDA, you don't have the right to eat high-quality unpasteurized cheese—because they say so.
Farmageddon Premiere
Farmageddon: The Unseen War on American Family Farms is a documentary by Kristin Canty that will likely make the government's overreach an even hotter topic. It premiered on June 17 at the West End Theater in Washington D.C. For a full list of scheduled venues, please see the film's screening page.
The film's synopsis reads in part:
Farmageddon tells the story of small, family farms that were providing safe, healthy foods to their communities and were forced to stop, sometimes through violent action, by agents of misguided government bureaucracies, and seeks to figure out why.
… Instead of focusing on the source of food safety problems — most often the industrial food chain — policymakers and regulators implement and enforce solutions that target and often drive out of business small farms that have proven themselves more than capable of producing safe, healthy food, but buckle under the crushing weight of government regulations and excessive enforcement actions.
Farmageddon highlights the urgency of food freedom, encouraging farmers and consumers alike to take action to preserve individuals' rights to access food of their choice…"
I encourage you to view this film if you can. The DVD release is expected in the late fall or winter.
I also encourage you to consider making a donation to the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF). This 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization enables targeted farmers to keep their businesses open, whereas they would otherwise have no choice but to close down due to insurmountable legal and financial pressure. Your donations, although not tax deductible, will be used to support the litigation, legislative, and lobbying efforts of the FTCLDF.
Additional Action Alert!
I also want to alert you to yet another related and important action item, namely the natural versus industrial trans fat labeling in restaurant food. There's a provision in the new health care act that requires nutrition labeling of standardized menu selections at restaurant chains with 20 or more locations.
The FDA is currently accepting public comment for this proposed regulation, which would require natural and healthy trans fats from ruminant animals to be labeled in the same manner as health-damaging industrial health fats such as partially hydrogenated vegetable oil.
As explained by the Weston A Price Foundation:
"Partially hydrogenated vegetable oil contains harmful trans fat, known to increase the risk of heart disease, cancer and type two diabetes. But ruminant animals (cows, sheep, goats) also make trans fat, which is stored in their fat and butterfat. Ruminant trans fat is transformed into conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) which can prevent cancer and has other health benefits.
Because there is little or no cooked meat in most packaged foods, and because serving sizes are modest, the ruminant trans fat present in these foods is usually less than 0.5g per serving. Below this amount the trans fat is labeled as 0g per serving. But a hamburger made with a quarter pound of 20 percent fat ground beef has a trans fat level of about 0.6g. And with a slice of cheese it is 0.8g. The fat in beef has about 5 percent trans fat and milk fat has about 3.5 percent.
As proposed, the trans fat in natural animal fats will be declared on menus. This is because the regulations make no distinction between industrial and ruminant trans fat..
In Europe, the regulations do not mandate trans fat labeling for ruminant trans fats, as scientists there recognize the difference between healthy trans fats in butter and meat fat, and unhealthy industrial trans fats."
The FDA is accepting public comments through July 5. I urge you to contact the FDA and voice your concerns. Please tell the FDA that all trans fat is NOT the same. A new category: "Industrial trans fat" should replace trans fat for nutrition labeling as this would not subject healthy ruminant fats to pejorative labeling.
To submit a comment electronically, please follow these instructions:
- Open the website www.regulations.gov, and click Submit a Comment.
- Enter docket number FDA-2011-F-0172 in the keyword space.
- Click Search.
- Go to the far right on the screen labeled 1 result for FDA-2011-F-0172 and click submit a comment.
You may also submit your comment via U.S. Postal Service:
Send your letter to:
The Division of Dockets Management
Food and Drug Administration
5630 Fisher Lane
Rockville, MD 20852
It is important to write the docket number FDA-2011-F-0172 on each page.
If you would like to know more about the health benefits of fresh raw milk, please visit Dr. Mercola , Real Milk , and the Weston A Price Foundation websites.
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1. Has this file been released before anywhere on or off line? We have given these documents to our attorney but no action was filed, statute of limitations has expired. The court document is PUBLIC RECORD in Michigan, but we have no knowledge of other releases. The Catholic Social Services of Wayne County Michigan Document "Record of Admission" is part of our foster file and is confidential and not releasable under the Freedom of Information Act.
2. Why is this file important? Foster care agencies collect administrative fees when a foster child is moved. Ryan was moved for one week in October 2001 for vacation placement, but never moved from our home after that, never moved twice in 2002 as the court record falsely indicates. To our knowledge and belief Catholic Social Services of Wayne County Michigan USA routinely MOVES children on PAPER ONLY and fraudulently collects administration fees at taxpayers expense. Laura Hudson Burrell submitted the false information to the court and her name appears in the court document. Furthermore, Catholic Social Services routinely falsifies documents: http://www.dleg.state.mi.us/fhs/brs/reports/CB820201024_SIR_2007C0208050.pdf
3. What is the likely audience? Former and current Foster Parents; Adoptive Parents; Biologic Parents; Taxpayers; Child advocates
4. What are some approaches to verification (who can journalists call for comment etc)? Mark and Susan Sweetman, 734-956-4168. Court records for this file are available at the Third Judicial Circuit (Court) - Juvenile Division 1025 East Forest, Detroit, Michigan 48207 USA case #01-397,031, but the court file has "disappeared" twice in the past; Our foster home file is located at Catholic Social Services of Wayne County 9851 Hamilton, Detroit, Michigan USA but we have not been allowed to view it, some documents are releasable under the Freedom of Information Act. http://www.dleg.state.mi.us/brs_cwl/dt_cwl.asp?CWL_NBR=CB820201024&cnty_name=WAYNE Special investigation number 2006C0208017 complaint came from us and ALL our allegations are TRUE despite the licensing office not making a finding on most of our accusations. The addendum also proves how the licensing agency attempts to cover up the foster care agency wrongdoing. http://www.dleg.state.mi.us/fhs/brs/reports/CB820201024_SIR_2006C0208017.pdf
5. Why was it leaked? This is FRAUD, it costs the taxpayers money, and it needs to be published. Foster children are routinely moved on PAPER ONLY, it happens all the time. This gives agencies incentive to keep children in foster care and not find permanent homes for foster children.
6. Is there some event that means the document needs to published urgently? There is not anything urgent. Children in foster care generate revenue for private agencies, adoption stops the revenue, but these documents speak to falsification of facts. Two siblings of "Ryan Kyle Jones Buck" remain in foster care. The brother is about to age out of the system and the infant sister has been denied adoption TWICE with two good families. The third family applying to adopt her is currently licensed foster parent with Catholic Social Services of Wayne County, also adoptive parents of a sibling, the infant should have been placed in their home prior to court hearing February 12, 2008, but delay indicates that the third family will be a target of false accusations in order to keep the child in foster care.


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The key finding in this Quinnipiac poll isn't Chris Christie's 74% approval rating in New Jersey, or his commanding lead in this year's governor's race -- it's how well he'd do in supposedly solid-blue New Jersey as a presidential candidate:
In an early look at the 2016 presidential election, New Jersey voters go 49 percent for Hillary Clinton and 45 percent for Christie.....We think the Republican Party is in dire straits because its core voters are old and white and male and Southern, and because its overall approval ratings are low. But if you analyze any poll, you'll see that the GOP's low standing comes in part from Republicans, who nevertheless vote for the party on Election Day, which tells me that they're telling pollsters they disapprove of their own party because it's not crazy and right-wing enough, and then they vote for the party because they absolutely feel it's better than the Antichrist Democratic Party.
The Garden State's native son tops New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo 54 - 36 percent. Christie ... wins 45 percent of women to Cuomo's 42 percent....
And as for non-Republican voters, they say they don't like the GOP, but that sense of disgust is a mile wide and an inch deep -- even in the bluest states, they're willing to suspend that sense of disgust for any Republican who seems to deviate in any way from Republican stereotypes (or, perhaps, just because they kinda-sorta feel it's time for a change after a few years with, say, a Democratic governor). Why else would there be states that are reliably blue in presidential elections -- Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and Michigan -- under all-GOP control at the state level?
No Democrat could possibly win the presidential race in Mississippi or Utah or Alabama or Oklahoma in 2016, but against a sufficiently uninspiring candidate -- Martin O'Malley? -- there's no telling how many states could be won by a Republican who's successfully concealed his fealty to his party's agenda, as the Koch lackey Christie has. That's because the Republican brand is still not box-office poison, or even close. Democrats and liberals still haven't tarnished the GOP's reputation enough. And nothing will change in this country until that changes.
(X-posted at Balloon Juice.)


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Nobody really likes it when taxes go up, not even those that lean farthest to the left.
As the smoke literally cleared from the air of local establishments, and smokers were left out in the cold when the "Clean Air Act" goes into effect, the ones that haven't quit cold turkey are twitching just as badly when they see how much a pack of "lung darts" are costing these days.
The buck per pack that is now the tax for cigarettes, up 156 percent from the 39 cents per pack that it was just a few months ago, is hurting the smokers in their pocketbooks, rather than just hurting their lungs with every puff.
What's next, the taxation of Nicorette and "the patch?"
It's almost as if they know it's going to kill you, so they might as well bleed as much money out of you as they can on your way out.
It's like what the Scottish government used to do when the heroin epidemic was raging over there in the "Trainspotting" years. They would spend money to put addicts on methadone as a substitute for the illegal drug, but studies showed that it was actually more addictive than the heroin so the addicts never were rehabilitated, but they had to pay the government for their meds. Plus, they couldn't get jobs as they were flagged for being addicts, and as a result, could not rent a flat without a job. So, they were eventually put back on the streets where they did … you guessed it, more heroin.
Now obviously, I'm not saying that smoking butts is similar to "chasing the dragon" but government trying to create sanctions behind the guise of the "greater good" or "promoting a healthier lifestyle" is sometimes quite transparent when they are making a great deal of cash out of it.
As with anything else however, someone has to pay, one way or another.
So now as smokers look for a place that they can puff in peace, there is now a bill looming in the state senate to raise the price of booze.
You can't hike the price of booze in Ocean City, as there will no doubt be riots.
And not the kind of riots that happen when the Nintendo Wii goes on sale on Black Friday or when "Runaway Bride" comes back into stock in Berlin movie stores.
It's not just a subtle hike that Senator Jennie M. Forehand of Montgomery County is proposing either. The bill calls for a $3 hike per gallon for distilled spirits or liquor to the lay person, an 80-cent hike for wine, and a 46 cent hike for beer (all per gallon amounts).
Obviously, people are up in arms, as booze drinking is certainly the bread and butter for holiday fun for the majority of people that frequent this family resort. As odd as that last sentence reads, anyone that has spent more than a New York minute in this town knows that it's true. I mean the only thing more abundant in this town than liquor licenses is condominiums.
So, this most recent proposal is a bit of a concern for not only the people that visit this little resort town, but also to the business owners that have to purchase said liquor at a higher price, and then raise their own prices for the already bled-dry consumer.
Let's think of it this way if in fact this bill were to go through and go into effect: The average driver has to use at least a tank of gas to get to this town, and I'm not the first to realize that gas prices are, as the say in Boston, wicked high. Then, once they get here, they have to spend between $300 and $400 for a hotel room, or a few grand for a week's condo stay, and then hope that they have a few dollars left over to go out a night or two while they are here.
Once they do go out, food prices are up a bit as the companies that deliver the food are now charging a higher fee to compensate for the gas prices, and the booze drink that they would like to enjoy to take the edge off of all of these and every other worry that life brings their way is now an extra dollar or two more.
Now I call that a holiday.
It should be mentioned that Ocean City still does not have New York or even Philadelphia drink prices, although it's getting there. You can still get a round of drinks for $20 in some area establishments, as long as you stay in the draft beer and rail drink families.
I guess if there was ever an issue for Ocean City locals to get "their panties in a bunch" over it would be this proposed bill. Just like the government funds some of its ridiculous spending habits with "sin taxes", Ocean City locals fund their families on the desires of vacationers to "sin" and indulge in the eating, drinking and hope to in fact "be merry" without having to take out a loan in order to do so.
When I was growing up and was taught in health class that pretty much everything that I thought at age 7 tasted good was more than likely saturated in unhealthiness and topped with three layers of sugar, I was a bit downtrodden. Now as an adult, the fact that you see how things work, and perhaps coupled with the fact that I just finished reading "Freakonomics", I realize that even the things that are supposed to be a reward for all your hard work: vacation, family time, and even the occasional glass of wine, can come at a price that is downright maddening.
So the question is: can we ever really relax without paying dearly for it?
Maybe the good senator can get through the hard times with a box of Franzia White Zin in her fridge, but some people need to get out and enjoy a wine that wasn't made in December of '07.
Healthy food isn't that cheap either. Have you looked at the price per gallon of organic milk or anything that is considered low fat?
If they are going to tax the hell out of items and products that are bad for us, why don't they give us some sort of break on the stuff that they say is in fact, good for us?
It would be a "good faith" kind of thing that government could do for us that would help a lot more than the ridiculous $600 tax refund that is supposed to jumpstart the economy.
You know that you will take that money if you get a check and pay for your astronomically high electric and gas bills anyway.
Or, perhaps you'll do like a naysayer suggested in a recent email, when he said, "poor folk will probably just spend their refund on smokes and lotto tickets."
Now there's something they haven't taxed yet: lotto tickets.
Email me at [email protected].


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From the PCs of the University of Miskolc with internet access several big international databases are available. These databases cover most fields of science thaught at our university, or even more, as they are for international demand. These databases mostly contain bibliographical information on articles of journals, usually extended with summaries, but there are also many where full texts are available (e.g. Elsevier, Springer journals, etc.).
OPENDOAR - Directory of Open Access Repositories: http://www.opendoar.org/
ROAR - Registry of Open Access Repositories: http://archives.eprints.org/
Avance y Perspectiva: http://cinvestav.mx/publicaciones/avance.html
Enviromental Research Letters: http://erl.iop.org
ACS Nano: http://pubs.acs.org/journals/ancac3
MATARKA: Searchable database of the Table of Contents of Hungarian journals
Our library collects the digital copy of all scientific and educational documents created at our university. You can search for publications, Theses, TDK papers, University publications, video archives, etc.
We are very happy to inform our readers that two faculities of the University of Miskolc have purchaesed more than 500 full text e-books from the publisher Elsevier.
- Faculty of Earth Science and Engineering:
- topics of 'Earth and Planetary Science';
- topics of 'Environmental Science';
- Faculty of Economics:
- topics of 'Economics, Econometrics and Finance'.
The e-books are directly accessible, searchable and downloadable via the database Science Direct from anywhere on the campus of the university. The list of books can be found on the below sites and they are directly accessible from these sites, too.
Topics of 'Earth and Planetary Science'
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Anti-Semitic violence rises throughout Western Europe as Israel's defensive operation in Gaza intensifies.
A firebomb was hurled at a synagogue near Paris, part of a string of anti-Semitic incidents in Western Europe coinciding with Israel's assault on Hamas in Gaza.
The firebomb went off Friday night at the entrance to the synagogue of Aulnay-sous-Bois, a northeastern suburb of the French capital, according to the National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA. No one was hurt and the fire resulted in minor damage, Le Monde reported.
On July 8, the day that Israel launched Operation Protective Edge against Hamas in Gaza, a man described as having a Middle Eastern appearance assaulted a Jewish 17-year-old girl on a Paris street near the Gare du Nord train station by spraying pepper-spray on her face, BNVCA also reported.
The girl, identified by her initials, J.L., wrote in her complaint to police that the man, who was in his 20s, shouted: "Dirty Jewess, inshallah you will die."
France and the Paris region in particular recently have seen an elevated level of anti-Semitic attacks. BNVCA President Ghozlan warned attacks may become even more frequent because of the fighting in Gaza.
"We have seen violence increase at periods of unrest in the Middle East and this is no small part the result of incitement and anti-Semitism at demonstrations against Israel," he wrote.
In Belleville, an eastern suburb of Paris, a demonstration Saturday by a few dozen people against Israel's attack on Hamas featured calls to "slaughter the Jews," according to Alain Azria, a French Jewish photojournalist who covered the event. The crowd also chanted "death to the Jews," he said.
In The Hague, the Netherlands, a few hundred people, most reportedly appearing to be of Middle Eastern descent, blocked a central shopping street while carrying signs that juxtaposed the Israeli flag with the flag of Nazi Germany. One sign read: "Stop doing what Hitler did to you." Among the participants was Fatima Elatik, a local politician from Amsterdam and former member of the now defunct Jewish-Moroccan Network for dialogue, who posed for a picture with a demonstrator wearing a shirt that accused Israel of genocide.
Back in France, the local branch of the far-right Jewish Defense League, or LDJ, boasted about disrupting a demonstration against Israel on July 9 and injuring the protesters.
"There were 30 of us and 200 Hamas supporters yet they'll all remember our presence, and especially the six wounded on their side," LDJ wrote on its Twitter account after the protest.
View original HAARETZ publication at: http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.604813


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"I have a ton of supporters that I love and I appreciate, and I have a ton of haters that have no idea what it takes to do what I do or live how I live. Everything I do is to prove someone right, or prove someone wrong." - Miguel Angel Torres
The cheers had stopped. Then came the fight you didn't see. Miguel Angel Torres had just defended his WEC bantamweight title for the third time, cementing his place on the mythical pound-for-pound list with a stirring five round slugfest against Japan's Takeya Mizugaki.
The 25 minute scrap at Chicago's UIC Pavilion on April 5, 2009 was unquestionably a Fight of the Night winner, and praise rained down on the champion at the post-fight press conference just before he heard even more of it at an afterparty thrown in his honor. By the time it was over, it was 4am and Torres had just enough time to hit the hotel, grab his bags, and get to the airport to grab a plane to Mexico for a week of PR work.
"As the plane came down, I guess the elevation made my eye swell shut, so I landed and got off the plane and it literally looked like I got mauled by a cougar or gorilla or something," said Torres. "My eye was swelled shut and purple, I had scrapes all over my face, my lip was split open, and I was doing television interviews from Monday through Saturday non-stop. No amount of makeup or no sunglasses were gonna cover that up. I felt myself getting sore as the day went on. My ribs, my hands, my feet, my shins, pretty much everything hurt. Even my hair hurt."
It's the side of the game few, if any, see. I once asked the late Arturo Gatti what the morning after was like following one of his epic wars, and he laughed. "Well, I don't see the daylight because my eyes are swelled up."
When repeating this quote to Torres, he knew exactly what Gatti was talking about. The East Chicago, Indiana native told of there being no soap at the venue that night a little over three years ago, forcing him to water himself down just to get the blood off.
"It was that hectic," he said. "I pretty much felt like s**t for a good four or five days, I got home Saturday, and I wasn't right for about three of four weeks. In the middle of that I'm teaching class, doing appearances, doing shows for ESPN, and it's already the middle of June, end of June, and they're telling me I'm gonna fight Brian Bowles in August, and I basically had six weeks to train for the fight and it was a learning curve for me."
As he puts it now, "I didn't know I could say no to certain things. I was saying yes to everything and traveling for all these different things. I know better now, but I wouldn't take that experience back. I learned a lot from that. I learned who my friends are and what I'm really about, and it's led me to the path that I'm on now, I'm in a good place, and I'm very happy."
Plenty of road has been traveled for him to get to this place, days away from an important UFC 145 clash with rising star Michael McDonald this Saturday in Atlanta. Torres would get knocked out by Bowles in their August 2009 bout, losing his title and the air of invincibility that accompanied a 17 fight winning streak. He dropped his next fight as well, getting bloodied and submitted by Joseph Benavidez. He would switch training camps, eventually settling in with Firas Zahabi at the Tristar Gym in Montreal, and he has won three of his last four bouts. Last December though, an off-color tweet got him ousted from the UFC, and while he was brought back in less than a month, the time outside the organization felt much longer to Torres.
"It was short, but it was the longest period of my life," he said. "Every day felt like a year and I had no idea what was gonna happen. That's what made it seem like it was so long. You don't know what's gonna happen the next day, and you're just trying to correct things. You're getting advice from a hundred different people a day, and phone calls and emails, and you should do this or this, and it's one of those frustrating things, but everything happens for a reason, and it made me a stronger and better person in the end, and all I can do is thank God and thank my manager and all my friends and supporters who stuck through everything with me."
Through it all, Torres still has his sense of humor, still has a healthy dose of irreverence, and still has the ability to be the best bantamweight in the world. But life isn't as simple as it used to be when he was coming up on the Midwest circuit and taking on all comers with a style that most would deem reckless. Even in his WEC days, no matter who stood across from him, Torres was not only willing, but expecting, to make it a war. And while that's fun for those on the outside to watch, it doesn't spell a long career for the one throwing and taking the punches.
"People don't understand what it is to win a fight and come out banged up for a month," Torres explains. "You come back and you've got to fight again in three or four months. You gotta get back on the ball and you just can't take two or three months off and recover and get back and start training again. You gotta be done with your fight, be healthy, get back and see what you did wrong and see what you did right, fix what you did wrong and get back in training and get better before you start training for a fight again. Being in a fight shouldn't be getting in shape. You should always be in shape. But you can't be in shape when you're hurt."
When you're a fighter, these things just become part of the everyday routine. It's an inconvenience, not a deal breaker. Torres was no different, but one day Zahabi sat his new charge down and gave him a heartfelt talking to.
"Firas basically told me that if I kept fighting the way that I was fighting, that I was not gonna last long," said the 31-year old Torres. "You can't make a war out of every fight you go into because your body's not gonna hold up. There's always gonna be a younger, stronger kid out there that wants to go to war too that's not gonna have the injuries you have and the stress you have. He made me look at fighting differently, and he brought my daughter up. He said 'look, you have a daughter. You're not gonna fight forever. You gotta be healthy because when you retire you don't want to have a messed up head, and be punch drunk, and have your hands all messed up.' And he struck a chord with me because he was one hundred percent right."
Four year old Yelana is the light of her father's life. Fight mode Torres turns into dad Torres as soon as the topic of his daughter comes up, and he admits that while being in Montreal for training camp, "The biggest problem I've had is missing my daughter. She's four, she's a beast. (Laughs) I don't want my daughter to grow up. I wish she could stay four forever."
Any father would likely agree with Torres, as these are great years to see children go from toddlers to that next stage of life, where they actually start developing into little people. That makes the time away even more difficult, but Torres knows that what he's sacrificing now is for his daughter's benefit later.
"I talk to her on the phone often, and she knows that I'm training and she knows what I'm doing," he said. "She thinks I'm friends with Iron Man, and I tell her that Iron Man's my best friend. (Laughs) For her birthday party I dressed up as Iron Man and made an appearance. She knows I'm training for a fight, and of course she misses me, but she doesn't have a good concept of time yet. So I tell her I'll be home in a month, and she's like 'tomorrow?' It's really hard because she loves me and wants to see me, and it's hard being away from her, but I know after my fights, every fight that I have, every purse I bring home is change in the bank for her and for her future, and I'm gonna be able to afford her certain things that I wouldn't be able to otherwise, and when her college is paid off in a couple years and she has her future set, she'll grow up and look back and be able to know that I took care of her."
If Torres' upcoming opponent, Michael McDonald, was in college, he would be approaching graduation day shortly. Instead, "Mayday" has opted for the school of hard knocks, where a win over the former WEC champ would definitely afford him the MMA equivalent of Magna Cum Laude status. It's an odd situation to say the least, with Torres "official" pro debut coming in March of 2000, when McDonald was just nine years old. If that won't make you feel old, nothing will.
"I don't think it's weird at all," said Torres. "I know he started early; I think he was 14 when he started competing, so it's not weird at all. I think the biggest thing is the experience level. I train with a lot of younger guys that are super tough and they're really good, and all my training partners are his age. They're 19 to 22, 23, with great wrestling, great jiu-jitsu, great striking. They've got explosion and they've got youth on their side. But the one thing that always gets me through is my experience. And I know this fight's gonna be super tough, and I'm not looking past him at all. Everyone's telling me 'oh, you can't look past this kid,' and for me, every fight I have is a title fight, and this guy's coming out to take my head off. I know he's taking this fight super serious, and anybody that fights me is gonna try to make a name off of beating me."
It's the curse of being the man who once ruled the division, the grand master of the bantamweight class who basically put the 135 pounders on the United States map during his time as king. Yet as Torres explains, he's always had a target on him back.
"I've been that guy forever," he said. "Even before I had a record, I was the small guy that everybody wanted to beat up, and then when I was winning all my fights, I was the undefeated guy that everybody wanted to beat, and after I lost, I was the legend that everybody wanted to beat again. I've always been the guy that somebody's wanted to beat up, and I'm totally used to that and there's no pressure at all from that. For me, a fight's a fight, and I've never lost a fight that I've trained a hundred percent for. If I was healthy and trained a hundred percent, I've never lost a fight. I'm totally healthy, and this is the first time I've gone into it with no stress from my home life and my gym. I hired my sister, she's been doing a great job since January, and I've had not one problem, not one phone call with something going wrong. So there's no stress from home, I've been training clean for the past month and a half, and stresswise and mentally, I'm free to train and just be able to enjoy myself out here and do what I gotta do to get ready for my fight, and I haven't had that before, even when I was home."
After over a decade full of battles, some more taxing than others, Torres sounds like he has finally figured things out in this Rubik's Cube of sports. But at what cost to the fans eager to see him throw down like he did with Mizugaki and so many others? It's a question many have asked when looking at his UFC decision wins over Antonio Banuelos and Nick Pace, fights in which he was disciplined and effective, but not as visceral with his attack as he used to be. It's a topic Torres has grown tired of.
"There's more than one way to skin a cat, and people were really criticizing me, saying 'oh, you're scared and you're ultra-passive now,' and all these things, and that's not the case at all," he said. "When you learn a new style, it takes time to develop that style and mold it in and mesh it with your old style. I'm still naturally aggressive inside, and I'm more aggressive than people think. I'm that pissed off Mexican everybody used to watch. I fight myself a lot to control how I fight and how I approach my bouts. But Firas is a very smart guy, I trust him with my life and my career, and even though everybody puts me down or says they want to see the old Torres or whatever, I know what's right for my daughter, for my gym, for my students, and for my future, and no one's gonna send me any other way."
So what way is Miguel Angel Torres heading? Back to the top of course, and when he gets there, he can't wait to celebrate with the faithful and scoff at the non-believers.
"It's always sweet, but I think the second time around is the sweetest," he said. "I'm always the underdog and I always look at myself like that. Even when I was on top, I was the underdog. It comes natural to me, I'm used to it, and I'm most comfortable when I'm the underdog, and I'm the most dangerous. I have a ton of supporters that I love and I appreciate, and I have a ton of haters that have no idea what it takes to do what I do or live how I live. Everything I do is to prove someone right, or prove someone wrong."
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Does the Sequester Threaten These Defense Stocks?
The sequester is certainly a big deal for defense stocks, as evidenced by former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta calling the sequester a "disaster" for the Defense Department. But for investors, how should this impact the way you view these stocks?
Ultimately, most believe that some kind of deal paring down the sequester will get done at some point. Don't hold your breath in Washington, but, if this is the case, this will be mostly a short-term distraction for defense stocks.
Taking a long-term view, the future of the F-35, the biggest defense contract in history, is potentially a bigger deal for defense contractors. Led by Lockheed Martin , pretty much all of the major contractors have some skin in the game. With several countries delaying or reducing the amount of F-35s they will buy, it increases the cost-per-plane for a program that is already delayed and significantly over budget.
In the video below, analyst Brendan Byrnes discusses how the sequester, the F-35 program, and the growing cyber security threat affects the big defense contractors. Brendan also gives his top stock in the sector.
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Andrew: Hey Fools, Andrew Tonner here. I'm joined today by Brendan Byrnes, our Motley Fool Analyst.
Brendan, one of the big storylines affecting the industrial space, defense stocks especially, is the sequester and the short-term spending cuts. There really have been a lot of people freaked out, but when you look at them in context as an investor in the defense space, what are your thoughts on it?
Brendan: Yeah, it's getting all the headlines right now, the sequester. We've seen this coming -- $500 billion over the next 10 years. Ultimately, something will probably get worked out. Both sides are saying this is going to be too painful.
But the bigger story here, overall, is there's just going to be less money to go around for these big defense contractors. That's why you're seeing them priced so cheaply and, of course, when you look at the world's biggest defense contract of all time, Lockheed Martin heading the F35 program, this is a huge, huge program, and it has implications for every single defense contractor.
When you look at the cost of this program, up 70% since 2001, it's getting a lot of people nervous, not just the United States, but international partners, as well. Australia is planning to buy 100 F35s; it's probably not going to be that many. Canada announced it could cut 65 of them. Italy, fewer orders; and then Turkey, of course, is delaying the program for two years.
What happens is, when fewer international customers buy these F35s, the cost per unit goes up, so ultimately, I think this will get reduced a little bit for Lockheed Martin, even in the United States, which has, again, implications for all the defense, especially United Technologies through its Pratt Whitney subsidiary, which makes the engines.
Another trend to watch in defense is cyber security. We've seen Raytheon, General Dynamics, and Northrop Grumman all make acquisitions related to cyber security in 2012 with China, we know, getting increasingly involved with that. That's possibly a major growth area, going forward.
The defense industry, looking at these stocks -- Lockheed Martin, Raytheon trading at about 10X earnings, Northrop Grumman trading at about 8X earnings -- there's a reason they're this cheap. We have a lot of uncertainty baked in here.
I think Lockheed Martin could be a solid play if you're looking for maybe a little bit of defensive stock, a 5.2% dividend, so you could collect that. I wouldn't expect a ton of growth, going forward, but in this space I like United Technologies. It's a stock I own, it's better diversified. They have a bunch of different units; Otis Elevators, Carrier, that can help them better diversify, also other commercial aviation interests.
I would look for a more diversified play in this space, but again Lockheed Martin could be a solid value play for a dividend-seeking investor.
Andrew: Definitely it's interesting connecting the dots between these macro storylines we see, and boiling it down to specifics.
Brendan: It's just a lot of uncertainty, which freaks out investors.
The article Does the Sequester Threaten These Defense Stocks? originally appeared on Fool.com.
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AES San Francisco 2010
Broadcast and Media Streaming Session B7
Friday, November 5, 2:30 pm — 3:45 pm (Room 133)
B7 - Innovations in Digital Radio
David Bialik, Consultant
Steve Fluker, Cox Radio
Frank Foti, Telos-Omnia-Axia
David Layer, NAB
Skip Pizzi, Consultant/Radio Ink
Tom Ray, WOR - Buckley Broadcasting
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On Makayla Chang's birthday, the community sang her Happy Birthday, had cake, and made a wish for justice.
A celebration was held Friday evening at Maffeo Sutton Park for Chang on what would have been her 18th birthday. The teen went missing two weeks after her 16th birthday in 2017 and was found murdered that spring.
"Not knowing anything is frustrating; it's really frustrating," said Kerry Chang, Makayla's father. "We know absolutely nothing [more] than we did two years ago. We really don't know anything whatsoever, not where she was found, how she died."
Kerry Chang said "somebody out there knows something" and that was motivation to open her birthday up to the community and keep her case in the public eye.
"It's been a long two years and we're still looking for some closure," he said.
He's also concerned that the person responsible could cause further harm.
"I've never heard of anyone who harms children who just harms one and that's what's bothersome to me," he said. "They're walking amongst us and it's scary."
About 150 people were at the park Friday and signed a card for Makayla, flipped through a photo album and watched a slide show of happy memories of her with family and friends, taking selfies, dancing, and trying to eat a spoonful of cinnamon.
Lily Morice, who was friends with Makayla, said there are a lot of people in the community who cared about her. Morice said she doesn't hear much about how the investigation is going and hopes the authorities are working as hard as they possibly can.
"I just hope someone figures it out," she said. "It's time for her to let her rest easy instead of trying to figure out what happened."
She said Makayla always wanted to make other people feel good and had a rare ability to light up a room just by walking in. Morice said she loves her friend very much and misses her.
"She was an amazing person," Morice said. "It should have been her birthday today – a birthday party, not to mourn."
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Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux's Million Dollar Quartet takes theatergoers behind-the-scenes of one of Rock and Rolls' legendary recording sessions in 1956 when the production comes to the Kravis Center for the Kravis on Broadway Series.
Million Dollar Quartet
April 29 to May 4
Production History: This show actually has Floridian roots, having opened in Daytona Beach in 2006 before traveling to Seattle, Chicago and finally Broadway, premiering at the Nederlander Theatre in 2010. The production was nominated for three Tony Awards, including best musical, as well as a Drama Desk Award for outstanding musical.
Synopsis: This jukebox musical takes place December 4, 1956 at the Sun Records studios in Memphis and depicts a jam session among Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis.
Notable Songs: "Blue Suede Shoes," "Walk the Line"
Why You Should See It: Whether you grew up with this music or just know it from your favorite oldies station, Million Dollar Quartet is a lesson in rock-and-roll history the entire family can enjoy.
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Proudly claiming to be "the East Coast's first alternative rock station," 'FNX was by no means the only game in town for rock programming. But it was certainly in a league of its own. Even now, more than a week removed from its $14.5 million sale to Clear Channel Communications Inc. on May 16, it's strange to talk about the station in the past tense.
"It's bleak," says Julie Kramer, who spent 25 years as one of WFNX's most popular DJs. "When I heard the news, I was devastated. I was crying not only about the loss of my job, but also about what it means for all these indie and local bands. What's going to happen to them now? Who's going to play them? Someone has to be first, and someone has to start the story. And that's what we did."
Coming so closely on the heels of WBCN going away, WFNX's sale poses a more serious question:
Is rock radio dead in Boston?
"I don't think so," says Scott Fybush, who runs NorthEast Radio Watch, an industry news site based in Rochester, N.Y. "I think what we're seeing really parallels what's happening with radio as a whole around the country. There's still plenty of vibrancy to rock radio in Boston, but it has just moved to different places. If anything, it's probably healthier than, say, in New York, which was a real rock town that completely lost its rock radio over the last few years."
When we talk about the demise of 'FNX, which is still on the air until the Federal Communications Commission approves the sale by the station's owner, Phoenix Media/Communications Group, it's not a matter of mourning the death of a terrestrial radio station. We can — and do — hear and discover music from various sources these days, be they blogs, podcasts, satellite radio, or streaming sites like Spotify and Pandora.
If you want rock on Boston radio, you'll find it across the dial. Tune in to WAAF for your fix of all manner of rock — classic, hard, heavy, Nickelback, you name it. There's more classic rock at WZLX. Radio 92.9, formerly known as WBOS, spins plenty of U2, Coldplay, and Pearl Jam. WXRV (92.5 The River) is an independent station with an alt-rock bent similar to WFNX's programming.
No, the looming disappearance of WFNX feels like losing a piece of our local identity. Starting in the 1960s, Boston has had an indelible reputation for its love of rock music, and part of that stems from the city's radio resources.
"In this town, we're spoiled more than others because we have so many unique outlets on terrestrial radio, and so many colleges have good stations," says Peter Wolf, the J. Geils Band frontman who has a long history on local airwaves, dating back to his days as one of the founding DJs at WBCN in 1968.
"When something has such an important history in the community, it's always sad to see it go," Wolf adds. "The great thing about 'FNX was that it clearly knew what it was and what it wasn't. Its aim was true, and that's unusual."
That commitment to its mission endeared the station to generations of listeners. One of the most striking developments since 'FNX's sale was how quickly its supporters sprang into action. Within 48 hours, Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr accounts by the name of Occupy WFNX had cropped up.
"If it weren't for WFNX, I wouldn't have discovered a ton of bands both big and small because the station wasn't afraid to take risks," says Andrea, a 34-year-old software engineer who started the Occupy WFNX accounts as a way for fellow fans to connect and share their support. (In the spirit of keeping the focus on 'FNX, Andrea prefers not to give her last name but says she lives in Medford.) "I have a feeling a lot of people feel the same way I do."
Fybush says you simply can't sift Boston's rock culture from its radio history.
"When I was going to college in Boston 20-something years ago, it was unimaginable that someday there wouldn't be a WBCN or a WFNX," Fybush says. "There's a synergy between having the music present and having a place for people to find out about it. It's invaluable to have someone tell you why you gotta be at the Middle East on Friday night and why you gotta be at T.T.'s. on Saturday. Clubs used to need that radio piece. I think to a certain extent that has changed now with the advent of music blogs, Twitter, and things like Pandora and Spotify."
Fybush suggests that 'FNX might have been a victim of its own pioneering programming.
"One of the reasons 'FNX probably didn't do better than it did is because of the number of college stations that take a similar approach to radio," he says, mentioning Emerson College's WERS, MIT's WMBR, and Boston University's WBUR. "They have the ability to be even more out there in their selections and less constrained by commercial necessities."
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, one of the last independent stations in Boston, Donald St. Sauveur understands those financial pressures.
"We knock on wood every day. We're blessed to have 400,000 or so listeners who have consistently supported us," he says. "But it's hard to compete with these corporately owned clusters of radio stations."
WFNX and WXRV have had similar alt-rock programming, but St. Sauveur says they've shared something even more important.
"We're both committed to the local music scene, to being live on the air with real people from the marketplace who know how to pronounce Worcester and Leominster," St. Sauveur says with a laugh. "I think its loss says that even though market research suggests the masses don't care [about local radio], you shouldn't care only about conventional wisdom."
The problem, of course, lies in the ratings.
"The inevitability of this for 'FNX, which had been suffering for a while, has always existed, but when it actually happens, it's like, 'Wow, here it is,' " says Anngelle Wood, the veteran radio personality who hosts the local music showcase "Boston Emissions," which moved to WZLX in 2009 after WBCN went under. "People have really loved 'FNX, but I wonder how many of those people were actually listening to it. Still, they don't want it to go away."
Wood suspects the nature of how it's going out is particularly bothersome to some fans.
"I think the sale to Clear Channel hurts the most for a lot of people," Wood says. "I've never worked for a Clear Channel station, so I can't say what really happens, but the conjecture is always that they homogenize radio and pipe in people from different places. It's not live; it's not local."
At press time, Clear Channel had not announced any plans for the station, though there have been rumblings about a format switch — possibly to talk radio, commercial country, or Spanish-language programming.
Stephen M. Mindich, chairman and chief executive of Phoenix Media/Communications Group, which sold WFNX, retained the station's intellectual property, including its call letters and music library. He sold the license to broadcast at 101.7 FM, which means the station could relaunch elsewhere. WBCN did that, splitting into two separate formats (classic rock and free-form) on a digital station, but its biggest challenge has been letting listeners know it exists again.
While 'FNX awaits the FCC's approval, the station is broadcasting with a skeletal crew. Longtime DJs such as Kramer and Adam 12 have played their final sets.
But a defiant spirit — the same one that made 'FNX not just a radio station, but a way of life around here — has been alive and well in the playlists. It's hard not to equate the station's struggle with songs such as Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin'."
Clearly, WFNX is not going down without a fight.
"I know you can listen to radio on the Internet. And I know you can download this and that. You can spend half your life on iTunes," Kramer admits. "But when you're driving in your car, and that awesome song comes on the radio, and someone's talking about it being a beautiful day, and you roll down the windows, and the wind is blowing in your hair — there's nothing else that feels like that."
Radio that isn't local just isn't the same, whether it's coming from Clear Channel or a satellite company like SiriusXM.
"The people at Sirius don't know if it's sunny or rainy outside your door," Kramer says. "But we do — or we did."
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Spanish R user and solar energy lecturer Oscar Perpiñán Lamigueiro has written a detailed three-part guide to creating beautiful maps and choropleths (maps color-coded with regional data) using the R language. Motivated by the desire to recreate this graphic from the New York Times, Oscar describes how he creates similar high-quality maps using R.
In Part 1, Oscar grabbed some voting data from Spanish elections and shapefiles (detailed map coordinates) from Spain's Official Statistics department (INE) and set to work in R. He then used the maptools package and lattice graphics to create this choropleth of voting patterns in Spain:
In Part 2, he uses the raster package to import pixel-based environmental data from NASA, to create a map that combines population density, land use and land cover in a single map. (Personally, I find it very difficult to interpret such multivariate maps encoded in multiple dimensions of color, but the process is interesting.)
With these examples, you can see how you can get close to the types of maps featured in the New York Times (which, themselves, often involve R in their production). You can find the data and R code used to create these maps at Oscar's blog linked below.
Omnia sunt Communia!: Maps with R (III)


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- "The Dodgers will hold a 66-minute sale this Sunday to recognize Yasiel Puig's selection as National League Player of the Month for June, offering four tickets to the July 14 game against Colorado for $66." Dodgers to offer ticket special in honor of Puig (Dodgers.com)
- "You are looking at the most grateful person who walks the planet." Scully talks Dodgers, reflects on legendary career (Dodgers.com)
- What, no Rihanna? Do Celebrity Girlfriends Improve Athlete Performance? (SeatCrunch)
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The Beauties of Shakespear: Regularly Selected from Each Play. With a General Index, Digesting Them Under Proper Heads. Illustrated with Explanatory Notes, and Similar Passages, from Ancient and Modern Authors. By William Dodd, ... In Three VolumesJ. Macgowan, 1780 |
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Seite 85 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell...
Seite 167 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off...
Seite 225 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Seite 85 - This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.
Seite 251 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.
Seite 238 - With that, methought, a legion of foul fiends Environ'd me, and howled in mine ears Such hideous cries, that, with the very noise, I trembling wak'd, and, for a season after, Could not believe but that I was in hell, Such terrible impression made my dream.
Seite 168 - Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Seite 125 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Seite 254 - Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night. Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny What I have spoke: but farewell compliment! Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say 'Ay,' And I will take thy word: yet, if thou swear'st, Thou mayst prove false; at lovers' perjuries, They say, Jove laughs.
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Devils chasing biggest Cup comeback in 70 years
The New Jersey Devils aren't just pursuing the Los Angeles Kings in the Stanley Cup finals. They're trying to chase down the 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs in NHL history.
The Devils achieved a feat only matched by two other teams in NHL history when they won two games in the Cup finals after losing the first three. Only those Leafs ever completed the comeback, but the Devils aren't allowing themselves to get distracted by comparisons to something that happened 70 years ago.
''I don't look at it that way. That's for (media) to decide the magnitude of it, how important it is and where it fits in the history of it,'' Devils coach Peter DeBoer said. ''You're giving me too much credit to think I'm thinking bigger than that, or beyond that.
''I don't look at it as what a great accomplishment it would be - to be in a 3-0 hole and claw your way back out,'' he added. ''If I had my way, we would have never got in that hole. But that was the hand we were dealt. We made a little bit of our own bed there, and now we're stuck with trying to get out of it. But we have had an ability to rise to the occasion, and I just think it's a testament to character, to gut check, to the leadership in the room - all those things. That's when the rubber hits the road, so to speak, for your season and for your team.''
The `42 Leafs, coached by Hap Day and led by brothers Don and Nick Metz and goalie Turk Broda, made their dramatic comeback under extenuating and bizarre circumstances.
Detroit coach Jack Adams, the man for whom the NHL's coach of the year award is named, wasn't behind the bench for the final four games of that series after he was suspended by the league for jumping onto the ice during a free-for-all at the end of Game 3 and attacking referee Mel Harwood.
That wouldn't happen to Kings coach Darryl Sutter, who on his worst day would only give the referees a sneer they'd never forget.
''I don't know if it's necessarily history,'' New Jersey defenseman Bryce Salvador said in reference to the Devils' plight. ''Right now there's pressure on both teams playing for the Cup. We just wanted to stick with it, hope that the tide would turn for us, not get down on ourselves, not point fingers at anybody and not put the blame on ourselves being down 3-0. There's two games left and we've got to win them both. That's our focus - not how we got there.''
If the Devils do run the table, the Kings would join the `42 Red Wings as the only clubs to lose the finals after being up 3-0. And to think Los Angeles began the playoffs with a 15-2 run that had other NHL players griping on Twitter about how little adversity the eighth-seeded Kings had faced.
''We never thought that it was going to be easy,'' Los Angeles defenseman Drew Doughty said. ''We never thought we were going to win four in a row. We expected to be a long series like this. We expected it to go to a Game 6 - maybe a Game 7. But we have no doubt in our minds. We've just got to make sure we put a full 60 minutes together, because we haven't done that yet.
''Even though we've closed out the past three series quicker, we're prepared to go the distance,'' Doughty said. ''It's the Stanley Cup finals, and this is the toughest team we've played throughout the playoffs. So we knew it would be a tough challenge. Now it's up to us individually to get ourselves going and play as a team.''
The Devils appeared remarkably loose during their spirited practice on Sunday. The Kings, trying to win the first Stanley Cup in the franchise's 45-year history, might be gripping their sticks a little tighter because of the task of getting that elusive fourth victory against three-time Cup-winning goalie Martin Brodeur.
''Desperate hockey, I think, maybe brings the best out of us,'' Brodeur said Sunday. ''We wanted to win four games and we've won only two, so we can't afford to lose. We dug ourselves a really big hole that's going to be tough to overcome, but it's getting a little more realistic every day.
''And even if we get to Game 7, it won't be a comfortable position because there's no tomorrow. They have another tomorrow and we don't. But we feel fortunate to be in this position. We've worked really hard for it, and we deserve to be in this position. But there's lots to do.''